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TOUCH, Anne 3 4 5 6
Other names for Anne were Anna 7 and TOUGH, Ann.4 9 Facts and details for Anne Touch: • She was buried at the Saint Nicholas Churchyard in Aberdeen, , Aberdeenshire, Scotland on 30 May 1817. 6 Anne married John BOWER, son of William BOWER and Margaret CUMMINE, on 7 Sep 1784 in Keith, , Banff, Scotland.1 2 (John BOWER was born on 8 Sep 1751 in Elgin, , Moray, Scotland 10 11, baptized on 8 Sep 1751 in Elgin, , Moray, Scotland,10 died on 8 Nov 1820 in Aberdeen, , Aberdeenshire, Scotland 11 12 13 and was buried on 14 Nov 1820 in Aberdeen, , Aberdeenshire, Scotland 11 14.) Facts and details related to their marriage were: 
• Gift:,. These spoons have been passed down from generation to generation and are currently in the possession of Bruce Huntington Warren. They have been identified by an appraiser as 18th century spoons from Scotland and are engraved with the letters J A B. The J A B likely stands for John and Anne Bower. They were married in 1784, so this would agree with the information from the appraiser. A silver spoon was a Scottish Celtic traditional wedding gift symbolizing wishes that the couple never go hungry. The spoons were often engraved with the couples initials and date of marriage. 
• John Bower and Anne Touch were married on 7 Sep 1784 in Keith, , Banff, Scotland. |
Sources
1 Keith Parish - Church of Scotland (Keith, Moray, Scotland), Parish Records, "Marriage Register - 1784," John Bower and Ann Touch; digital images, Scotlands People, Old Parish Records (http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ : accessed 18 Aug 2011).
2 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [LDS], "International Genealogical Index," database, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org), Scotland Region, entry for John Bower and Anne Touch.
3 Bower-Wilson marriage entry (1813); issued 2004 by Norman Douglas Nicol, Maryculter, Church of Scotland (Maryculter, Kincardineshire).
4 Scotland, Aberdeen, John Bower; digital images, General Register Office for Scotland, the National Archives of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon, Scotlands People (http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ : accessed 12 Feb 2010).
5 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [LDS], "International Genealogical Index," database, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org), Scotland Region, entry for Anne Touch.
6 "Find a Grave," database (www.findagrave.com : accessed 9 Mar 2023), Anne Touch Bower #198728009.
7 Hew Scott D.D., Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, 11 (Edinburgh, Scotland: Oliver and Boyd, 1926), VI: 327.
8 (Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland), Parish Records, Ann Bower wife of John Bower, Schoolmaster; digital images, Scotlands People, Scotlands People (www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 2 Sep 2011).
9 Internet web site, http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?john,bower,scotland::bower::878.html.
10 Elgin (Elgin, Moray, Scotland), Old Parish Records, Baptism of John Bower; digital images, Scotland - Elgin Parish Records (accessed 4 Sep 2013).
11 "Find a Grave," database (www.findagrave.com : accessed 9 Mar 2023), John Bower #198727964.
12 Alexander Dingwall Fordyce, Family record of the name of Dingwall Fordyce in Aberdeenshire. (Published 1885, Original from Oxford University).
13 Alexander Dingwall Fordyce, Family record of the name of Dingwall Fordyce in Aberdeenshire. (Published 1885, Original from Oxford University), Page 29.
14 (Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland), Parish Records, John Bower; digital images, Scotlands People, Scotlands People (www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 2 Sep 2011).